A home intruder armed with a baseball bat escaped death by a matter of inches Monday when an armed elderly woman opened fire after he broke into her Pendleton, S.C., home and attacked her and another woman, police said.

It was around 3 p.m. when the intruder busted into the house and attacked both women, according to police. The homeowner, identified as Frances Ward, 72, was able to draw her revolver and shoot the man, grazing his head. If the shot was an inch lower, he likely would be dead.

The suspect, identified as 54-year-old Richard Keese, and the homeowner’s friend who was attacked were taken to the hospital and later released, though the suspect was immediately taken to jail.

Ward told KITV-TV that she had hired Keese to fix her car last month. She was shocked when she says he forced his way into her home in the middle of the day. Ward’s friend then reportedly grabbed a baseball bat to defend herself, but the suspect ripped it from her grip and began beating her with it.

It was at that point that Ward drew her firearm and shot the man. She was aiming to kill, but the intruder got lucky.

“If he hadn’t of been standing up, I would have hit him right here with the gun because I was aiming for his forehead to kill him, because he was beating the daylights out of her with that ball bat and I wasn’t going to let that happen,” Ward told KITV-TV.

Ward acted in self-defense, deputies confirmed.

Keese is currently in jail and faces charges of attempted murder and burglary, according to the Anderson County Detention Center’s website.

I am perfectly fine with getting inmates training or education to lessen the chance that they repeat. We need to stop putting nonviolent people in jail and cut the expenses of those who will never leave incarnation~

A degree isn't going to be of any use to a shitbird felon who nobody is going to hire anyway.

Some form of vocational training might be helpful, but jobs that require degrees are going to require clean records too.

A degree isn't going to be of any use to a shitbird felon who nobody is going to hire anyway.

Some form of vocational training might be helpful, but jobs that require degrees are going to require clean records too.

A GED is something that should be mandatory as a requirement for release for those who do not have a high school diploma~

__________________“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"
Steven Weinberg~

A degree isn't going to be of any use to a shitbird felon who nobody is going to hire anyway.

Some form of vocational training might be helpful, but jobs that require degrees are going to require clean records too.

Even if so, this assumes that he'd use it to get a punch-the-clock kind of job. If he got a degree in, for example, agriculture, creative writing, or engineering, he could farm, write, or invent something on his own.

Even if so, this assumes that he'd use it to get a punch-the-clock kind of job. If he got a degree in, for example, agriculture, creative writing, or engineering, he could farm, write, or invent something on his own.

Theoretically.

Something tells me this 54 year old man who is robbing old ladies was never going to create anything useful anyway.